Handle



P. L. RAY. HANDLE.

(No Model.)

No. 569,768. Patented 001;. 20, 1896.

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PA'rnN'r FREDERICK-L. RAY, OF EAST IIADDAM, CONN ECTICUT.

HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,768, dated October 20, 1896.

Application filed September 27,1895. Serial NO. 563,841. (Na model.)

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Be it known that I, FREDERICK L. RAY, of East laddani, iu the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in H audles, of which the following is a specification.

My inventiou relates to an improvement in handles, and more particularly to an improve ment in handles designed for a casket for containing corpses. Handles of this character, which are commonly covered with silk or other fine glossy material, are provided with end tips to give them a finish and are held in the free ends of vertically-swinging Suspension-bars pivoted to fixed bearings on the side of the casket. To prevent the handle from rolling' in its supports and to prevent the tips from displacement, each has hitherto been provided with some fastening device extending through it into the body of the handle, but there has been even then a tendcncy for the parts to work loose and become more or less displaced, so as to permit the'handle to work askew.

My present invention contemplates the firni uniting of the tips and supports to the body of the handle by a single fastening` device in such a m'anner as to hold them firmly in po' sition and to furthcr provide for the cutting away of the wall of the socket of the tip into skeleton form or to make it very shallow and at the same time holding it firmly in position.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a view of the handle as it appears at the side of a casket or other receptacle to which it may be applied when it hangs out of use. Fig. 2 is a reverse View of the handle and its supporting-hangers. Fig. 3 is a transverse Vertical section through the handle-bar and longitudinally through the hanger-support along the line a: a: of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section taken horizontally through the bar and its supports. Fig. 5 is a partial View in front elevation showing a modified form of tip, and Fig. G represent-s a modified form of fastening.

The bar or body of the handle is denoted by A and is here shown as presenting windin g Channels along its exterior, as is common. The tips are denoted by a. a' and consist of sockets having ornamental ends, the socket portions being adapted to fit tightly over the ends of the bar A. The walls of the socket are made skeleton to present ornainental projections (L2, and from the hack of the socket there is an extended piece (L3, preferably made gradually tapered from the tip toward the position of the support and adapted at its inner end to fall below the surface of the bar A, as clearly shown in Fig. 4, into a slight depression (v4, foruied in the concave surface of the bar.

The hangers or supports for the handle-bar are denoted by B B', provided, respectively, with eyes h b', adapted to receive the bar A with a close sliding fit. It is intended in as' sembling the parts to first slip the supporting-hangers B B' onto the bar A and then place the tips a o' in position with their extended portions (L3 seated at their free ends in the depressions ai in the bar and then slide the hangers B B' out wardly over the free ends of the extension as, forcin g them over the said extensions, which act as wedges to irmly wedge the supports B B' to the bar. When in such position, a single fastening, nail or screw, in the present instance screws 122, are inserted through perforations in the eyes b b' and through the tip extensions ([3 into the body of the handle-bar.

The hangers B B' are hinged to the plates C O' in the usual manuer, soas to permit the hangers which support the handle bar to swing up into a horizontal position and to become firmly locked against further movement. It will be observed that the extended port-ions ai on the tips, which serve to wedge the hangers firmly to the bar, and which also serve to lock the tips securely in position, are located where they will not ordinarily be seen while the handle hangs out of use or when it is in use, and the single fastening device, which looks both the ti p and supporting hanger in position, is also concealed from View.

The tip, instead of having a skeleton or ornamental socket, may have a plain socket, such as that shown at D in Fig. 5.

The screw or separate fastening may be dispensed with by making a little knob or teat e on the end of the extended portion of the tip, as shown in Fig. to snap into the hole in the eye, the projection being elastic enough to produce the snap action.

Vhat I claim is adapted to extend between the eye of the sup- The combination With a, handle-bar and a port; and the body of the handIe-bar within support for the hendle-har provided with m1 the eye, substantially as set forth.

eye through which the handle-bu' may be ind FREDERICK L. RAY. 5 serted, of a tp provided Wit-h a socket for Wtnesses:

the reeeption of the end of the bzu' and a pro- FREDK. I-IAYNES.

jecton at one side of the wall of the socket, GEORGE BARRY, J r. 

